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Topic Lesson 8: //**Everglades Forever**//

Common Core Standards RI5.6 Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent. RI5.8 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which points. W5.1a-d Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will analyze and evaluate the author's point of view and reasons that support it. 2. Students will write a persuasive paragraph.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts
 * __ Everglades, __ by Janice Leotti Bachen
 * __ The Everglades, __ by Wayne Lynch
 * __ Everglades National Park, __ by Susan Jankowski
 * __ Marjory Stoneman Douglas, __ by Jennifer Fisher Bryant

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Activities
 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 213. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "You Were There" or "Add some Drama."

Assessments 1. Practice Book, pages 85-86 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T201 and R18 3. Weekly Test 8.8-8.9

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